The REALITY Of HELL

There is such a place as hell. Let no one deceive you with vain words.

What people do not like, they try hard not to believe. 

When the Lord Jesus Christ comes to judge the world, He will punish all who are not His disciples with a fearful punishment: all who are found unrepentant and unbelieving, all who have clung to sin, all who are stuck to the world, and all who have set their affections on things below.

All who are without Christ shall come to an awful end.

Whosoever is not written in the book of life shall be “cast into the lake of fire.” [Rev 20:15]

I call on all who profess to believe the Bible, to be on their guard.

1) Some do not believe there is any hell at all.

They think it impossible there can be such a place. They call it inconsistent with the mercy of God.

They say it is too awful an idea to be really true. 

The devil of course, rejoices in the views of such people. They help his kingdom mightily.

They are preaching up his old favorite doctrine, “You shall not surely die.”

2) Some do not believe that hell is eternal. 

They tell us it is incredible that a compassionate God will punish people forever. He will surely open the prison doors at last.

This also is a mighty help to the devil’s cause.

3) Some believe there is a hell, but never allow that anybody is going there.

All people with them are good. As soon as they die, all were sincere, all meant well, and all, they hope, got to heaven.

Alas! what a common delusion this is!

Summary: If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

Beware of new and strange doctrines about hell and the eternity of punishment.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for everybody, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and bad in eternity.

Such a God is an idol of your own.

~J. C. Ryle~